Inside the abandoned Soviet base the Cold War left behind

It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble.

As part of a special series of reports on how Russia views 1989, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to former East Germany.

He took a look inside Wünsdorf, a complex near Berlin that housed tens of thousands of Soviet troops.

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